A well-done ancient-tech video for a well-done song.
I’ve really been lusting for some old-school computers lately, like an Apple II or a Commodore 64. I nearly bought a Commodore 64 this past weekend; when I showed up to buy it, it turned out to have a graphical glitch, and showed randomly cycling red, green and blue colors instead of white (I think there was blue… it looked like black).
I think I’d rather have an Apple II, anyway. Specifically, a //c or a late-model //e. Ebay has them for reasonable prices; though shipping gets expensive when a monitor’s involved. Hopefully I can find a seller in the Bay Area at some point.
Wonderful work!! I love the simplicity yet effectiveness of your work!!
My first approach to computers took place at school, must have been sometime around 1985… we used to do Logon programming on Apple II+… I think your wokr brought back some of those memoirs as well… compelling work!!
Congratulations, and regards from Chile!
Marco
Oh hey, sorry: it’s not my work. I wish it was.
Obviously, someone still loves their Apple ][, as this song’s album was released in 2000.
I tried to contact the email address listed at the beginning of this video for the full source code to this thing (in case I ever get an Apple ][, or else I could at least fire it up in an emulator); the video actually shows the source code at the end, but then it zooms out, and the highly-compressed YouTube video makes it pretty illegible. :/
Apple shmapple. The C64 was so ahead of it’s time. Brings back so many warm memories of discovering ML/assembler, etc.
To this friggin’ day, the one command I still type the fastest is POKE…
Regards
Henry